Song of the week: Donald Glover’s new ‘Summertime Magic’ is a summer contender

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Donald Glover arrives in shades of red at the premiere of “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”(Photo: JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP)

Donald Glover’s “This Is America” may be one of the year’s most affecting song-music video combination, but it’s a little too heavy to be a song-of-the-summer contender, engaging as it may be. To satisfy listeners looking for a more lighthearted kind of summertime banger, Glover, known to some by stage name Childish Gambino, shared the two-song “Summer Pack EP” Wednesday, a pair of songs that are the piña coladas to the shot of whiskey that is “This Is America” — uncomplicated and vaguely tropical, they go down easy. “Summertime Magic” is the highlight of the two tracks, which shows Glover doing his best Adam Levine impression over steel drums and a gently swaying beat. The other track is aptly titled “Feels Like Summer.”